Posted on 11/02/2025 6:48:08 AM PST by DFG
TORONTO — One of the largest and riskiest investments paid off late Saturday night, as the Los Angeles Dodgers successfully purchased their second World Series victory in as many years.
The attempt to complete the purchase was put in jeopardy by the upstart Toronto Blue Jays, but the Dodgers' front office remained confident that their amazing achievement of spending more money than all the other teams would pay off.
"Money well spent," said Dodgers Executive Vice President and General Manager Braqondon Gomes. "It looked a little touch-and-go there for a bit, but thankfully, all the hard work we put in during the offseason writing checks ended up making the difference. We'll enjoy this win as much as we can, and then we'll get back to the drawing board and start the process of buying another World Series next year."
The Dodgers defeated the Blue Jays in extra innings in Game 7 to take the championship, helped partially by some outstanding clutch plays but mostly due to how much more they were willing to pay their players. "I'd like to thank God and the dude who signs my paychecks," said star slugger Shohei Ohtani through a translator. "While it's true that money can't buy you happiness, it can definitely buy some World Series rings. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go celebrate this victory by torching a few hundred thousand dollars with a flamethrower. Because it's nothing to me."
At publishing time, President Donald Trump had called the Dodgers to simultaneously congratulate them on defeating Canada and notify them that half their roster was being deported.
I don’t understand why the average fan is averse to billionaire sports team owners spending theirs and the fan’s money to employ great players to win. Too many owners are looking to make it profitable as the long suffering fans spend probably too much of their hard earned money on this form of entertainment. They should be demanding their team’s ownership to invest more in the team instead of profiting off the fan’s loyalty.
I like the current system.
No salary cap, free agency, & a draft order that benefits teams that are at the bottom of the standings.
How much parity is there in the NFL?
Which has all the things the “its not fair” in baseball crowd wants.
Already a huge scandal in the NBA.
If you're a casual sports fan like me, you'll notice that all the games are rigged.
It's obvious when they're manipulating an outcome.
Better would be: The Blue Jays beat the Blue Jays.
I think the under the surface growing mlb scandal is prop bets. We in Cleveland likely lost our closer forever because of these. When a player can secretly bet that his first pitch will be in the dirt or his first AB will be a strikeout, we have a serious problem.
You are correct. But then came George Steinbrenner, free agency and every TV network pouring millions into telecasting rights. So MLB shared national TV money but allowed teams to sell broadcast rights to their local market so large markets command more money and the disparity baloons.
It’s the Players Union that won’t accept a salary cap.
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Good.
Pay caps are only in the interest of ownership.
“Please, don’t make me spend money on talent, I want an arbitrary line that fills my bank account.”
The integrity of the game is all about putting your team in a position to win.
If you are throwing your first pitch in the dirt just so you can cover your prop bet, you end up screwing up the count. And the other team can take advantage of that.
“They won the championship fair and square.“
…And the Blue Jays were in it all the way. I mean really let’s be serious.
Probably true but when the Yankmees were buying multiple World Series, it was “good for baseball.”
I’m sorry, but the Dodgers did not “buy” their World Series victory, they had to work very hard for it, and some of their most expensive players were often not their own MVP of many of the seven games. The Blue Jays - way “under bidders” for top players, compared to the Dodgers, were powerful adversaries:
game 1 - blue jays 11, dodgers 4,
game 2 - blue jays 1, dodgers 5
game 3 - blue jays 5, dodgers 6 - 18 innings
game 4 - blue jays 6, dodgers 2
game 5 - blue jays 6, dodgers 1
game 6 - blue jays 1, dodgers 3
game 7 - blue jays 4, dodgers 5 - 11 innings
total blue jays spread on 3 wins over the dodgers - +16
total dodgers spread on 4 wins over the blue jays - +8
(the blue jays really made the dodgers work hard for any win)
the dodgers win just scrapped by and some of their best performers were not their highest paid players
in game 7, a dodgers player with no great reputation pulled their irons out of the fire twice
the dodgers star pitcher for the series was not Ohtani ($70 million), or Tyler Glasnow ($32.5 million) or Blake Snell (28.4 $million) but instead was Yoshinobu Yamamoto ($18.3 million), who was made the dodgers MVP for the world series
If you take it to the 11th inning of Game 7 yes you were in it the whole way.
I thought the Jays ran themselves out of Game 6 - you should never get doubled-off second base.
Late Dodger HRs killed the Jays in Game 2 and Game 7. Game 3…. Where to begin? It was won and lost a dozen times before the final. Baseball is such a close close thing.
The old joke went that the then Kansas City Athletics were basically another Yankees farm team. Maris came from there for instance.
A huge source of revenue disparity in MLB are the local broadcast contracts. The Yankees have the YES Network, Dodgers must have something comparable. Che and Braves have been national for decades. Unlike in the NFL where every team. No matter how good or bad shares equally in the broadcast revenues.
It's all about the money. If you can't afford to stay in the game, then get out.
Contrats to the Dodgers.........
“(the blue jays really made the dodgers work hard for any win)“
That’s what I saw. The Dodgers didn’t walk over them.
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